“Yeah look, once on my gastro term the consultant asked me to do the notes and instead of ‘patient due discharge’, I mistyped ‘patient die discharge’. Safe to say boss wasn’t happy.”
She pointed to me – “Who’s this?” He said “Man.” That moment was crushing.
One has to wonder where all these eligible interns come from, since there seems to be little evidence of med students of their calibre. Perhaps it is a stable income and clinical competency that is the crucial missing factor.
The idea for MSAP arose during the elective that Greg Moloney and I undertook in Malawi. This was in 2000, at the height of the HIV epidemic. We could not ignore what we had seen, but had an ethical responsibility to do something
“I’m just really excited to make a difference for students and do things that matter and-…Sorry gimme one second, just quickly posting this on my profile.”
Munch’s art explored themes of repression and instability representative of his own mental anguish; they were deeper messages awaiting diagnostic interpretations.
“It is only too true that a lot of artists are mentally ill – it’s a life which, to put it mildly, makes one an outsider. I’m all right when I completely immerse myself in work, but I’ll always remain half crazy.”
“I just want to help people,” Clippon informed us before we even had a chance to ask him his name.
Whenever I find myself feeling down, or stressed out about assignments or exams, I think back to what the stories mean to me, and I feel a calming sense of belonging to this exclusively intimate and almost sacred career.
In a form of passive protest, staff toilets have now also been restricted with swipe-card-only access, forcing cardless medical students to go to the bathroom in squalor amongst the rest of the community.
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